| Show CITY OFf V AND COUNTRY LIFE It Why Vimy Mommy Men h Arc J arm I-arm- Iii mug nw nR llIco I presented time Iho In a previous paper reasons that collect ts pavo me Co tot for l' l leaving time the farm to to enga o oIn In other occupations say tys L. L H. H Bailey In the August Augu t CenturY These saw In farming 40 tier per c cent nt them hemp alleging that the hu business offers no financial reward Twenty JI per l' l cent nt said that th the physical labor Jabor Is lo to tOil exacting anti and A approximately an aim equal number that thai no mio social are rt offered These replies pr pre prent nl nt one ont view of oC the time vexed question 0 what time the place pineo of or the farmer farmel Is t 16 tb lJ be In III our our coming civilization cJ There lhEr wa wan was wasa a n strain f o of hope running through some of or the replies that In the time future the opportunities on time the farm rann be Improved cc but bul for the thea port part the responses POM R were we hopelessly h a t the thc busIno o of farming harming as os a n means menus of I personal achievement When hen asked for COl the opinions of oft t those hose who lint had planned to 10 lea leave tl the ore farm I asked d also for COl that lint f 1110 moved al those who hn havo planned to lo remove from flom city conditions to farm life and anti those e who reared on omm farms farina Intended to return there ther after leaving Ita college The Time r responses are nn most illuminating amid ami of ot if course they Y are hopeful for those 01 of-Hs of wit who look to time 11 open country 10 tU aid In some large larg n way In ami and forwarding tho time best besl t civilization SIxty eight town bred or city bred students wrote roto me inc that lint they Intend to lo pursue farming fanning as aft A business anti and to this end Ond had entered Ul themselves m veM Inthe in inthe the lime College of or Agriculture Y t. should explain however that I use tHe tWe worth word farming In It Its broadest sense ens a as 31 comprising those many occupations that art are directly concerned with tin tilt products of ot time the soil and amid a nr re tin Intimate Intimate Inti limit mate touch with actual rural rea ife conditions conditions con comm for some of or these youThs young o hg men expect to be creamery men In the lie small rural factories luth rather I than actual net act ual tillers of the soil Many l of or the re- re respondents give mUle more than llian one ore reason rca rea son Ron for desiring to follow tollow work i 1 S t The Time point o of view of all these vallous various var val ious bus personal replies is most cant anti and It II is lt in bold bol contrast to tim the gene general ral run of or the time responses R of if tho those c who plan to leave tho time farm fara The Tue present ont replies are arp marked i by time the prominence given to In deals and b by tin lilt lit subordination of more personal emolument emol emul- anti and de desire for Cor money Forty per pel cent of those who are arC leaving tim the farm allege that thc they do so because thore there is not nol enough In It very ery IY Ht few of oC the time students who whop an to tu tobe tobe tube be farmers mention the time of oC earning money as us the leading motive e amid n a number of them mention the small earning n 31 10 power anti and n i then er- er declare th that t tIme they will JJ oll follow v time Die I business In spite of that l Neatly ever every ono one of or them gives higher high hIgh- l- l er r Ideals of ot living U as the propelling motive motin nn anti and these ideals cr crystallize I about two foci the foci the love of oC nature the tIme desire of a free Independent ent life liCe Moreover these are nrc responses if f strong conviction The They evidence e pride of calling and not one of oC the them themis m mI I is a apologetic po tic f They he ar are h hopeful they 11 1 ha have haC C a forward look l They I H n art n. n unselfish Not Nol One nf of them asks fur 10 01 Th The y simon show that lint even In Iii this epoch of ell city building the Ow love lu of or th time open country and amul of plain quiet quiel living still remains remain as a real and vital force T 1 TI I was wan impressed In Iii the replies of if those hose who ii are ame to leave time the farm with the emphasis placed on Oil lack of oh money floOd hard work and amid small social olty I am ani Impressed In lii these replies with time the recurrence of such stick ideals ns as love for the work one Is doing education study personal happiness service home With young men their business Is to bu be an aim affair of th time heart We hear much about the greed of money and pow power er and the great dangers en our runaway society wonder worm won tier der whether in iii time the end coil man will riot not still have hold of al at least one of time the reins |
